[AusNOG] Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal]

[Andrew Cox]

On 11/08/2010 1:22 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
> On 11/08/2010, at 1:03 PM, Michael Biber wrote:
>    
>> 12Mbps doesn't cut it today for the average household/farm...it's hopelessly
>> underpowered for anything coming, IMHO
>>      
> I find it fascinating that people would say that on this list, of all places.
>
> If the AusNOG crowd doesn't have a good handle on the bitrates used in real
> life by actual real-life users then what hope do the politicians have?
>
> PS: I reckon "12 Mbps doesn't cut it today for the average household/farm" is
> total bullshit.  And I reckon there are at least a hundred people on this list
> with several years of archived MRTG graphs which tell them I'm right.
>    
I can attest to that, having download quotas both encourage users to 
view usage as a finite resource as well as allow limited bandwidth to go 
a long way when properly managed.
In excess of 100 clients can survive easily on 20Mbps (1:1) with 
reasonable speeds (5~Mbps) as far as the end user sees. The 
client/bandwidth ratio goes up non-linearly as the bandwidth increases; 
bursting times for each user is different and it takes a lot to max a 
service out given well thought out priorities.

Our priorities work with services a student userbase sees as important 
seeing as that's who we're providing and heck; we run our business on 
this sort of thing and make it transparent to the end users: 
http://blog.accessplus.com.au/?p=63

-Andrew
> Just sayin'.
>
>    - mark :-)
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